Landskabsarkitektur og planlægning

Svava Riesto Mag.art., PhD, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Copenhagen.

Svava Riesto's research interests lie in the the cultural studies of urban landscapes, cities and architecture, specifically from the 20th and 21st century - focussing on their production, uses, historiographies, imaginaries and power. A special interest in her reserach is the politics of historiography and urban heritage, and their intersections with urban planning, landscape architecture, and urban climate adaptation.

News Together with Henriette Steiner, I am hosting a PhD course on Landscape, Architecture and Gender in October/November 2020.

The project aims to push forward our knowledge about the integration processes and cultural encounters that take place in shared spaces on social housing estates in Europe. PuSH explores the concept of publicness through the lense of cultural heritage, informalities/formalities, democracy and policymaking by studying the dynamic relationships between people and places on-site.

The project explores the relationship between landscape and welfare by examining large-scale housing estates in Denmark 1950-1975 as 'Welfare landscapes'. Not only were these landscapes planned, designed and realised with a great share of public resources from the welfare state, they are also entangled with discussions about the meanings and material dimensions of welfare - between collective and individual, freedom and control, humans and 'nature'. The project explores approaches to address social housing estates as welfare landscapes in the past, present and possible futures.

This network is concerned with how theoretical reflections can stimulate the thinking and praxis of narrating urban places of medium-sized European cities. In 2019-2020, Svava Riesto is co-editing the book 100 Minor Concepts for Writing Urban Places- a Vademecum together with Klaske Havik, Kris Pint and Henriette Steiner.

Publications in journals and books on critical heritage studies, landscape architecture, cultural studies and urbanism, as well as feature and review articles in professional magazines as an architecture- and heritage critic.